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Demise of the cocked hat
Tuesday, 16 Aug 2022, 21:26
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Interesting how cliches morph into phrases totally disconnected with the original. Tonight I heard ‘Beats into a cocktail’. The speaker didn’t mean egg flip, just that A was hugely better than B.
But that’s how language changes and all power to it.
Demise of the cocked hat
Interesting how cliches morph into phrases totally disconnected with the original. Tonight I heard ‘Beats into a cocktail’. The speaker didn’t mean egg flip, just that A was hugely better than B.
But that’s how language changes and all power to it.